[b]Wellington Jighere [/b]a Nigerian have just been crowned the champion at the World Scrabble Championship in Perth, far away Australia. Some couple of months ago, Nsikak Etim Solomon another Nigerian was crowned the African Champion in South Africa. Nigeria now holds the two trophy. The President of the Nigeria Scrabble Federation (NSF), Suleiman Garba, in a phone interview attributed the victory to hard work and dedication.

“It is a testimony of the potential of Nigeria as a country and the sacrifice and hard work of the board under my leadership.

“We started preparation about a year ago with seven camps which we christened Scrabble Meets to put our team in shape for the world championship and it has paid off.

“I am very proud of the Nigerian team and very proud to be Nigerian.

“I hope this victory will be made complete when our Golden Eaglets wins the World Cup later today,’’ he said.

SOURCE - http://www.akinov..com/2015/11/wellington-jighere-of-nigeria-becomes.html

CC- lalastical

While some are going to jail, some are representing the green white green nation positively.
Congratulations to him, Nigeria and its citizens.
A thousand likes for him

seun front page please

so many irrelevant orgs here and there!

Now chessguru, I would normally close this thread, since we already have two threads (by neoapocalypse) about this in this section.
https://www.nairaland.com/2719681/world-scrabble-championship-ongoing-perth (made yesterday, while he was leading).
https://www.nairaland.com/2721441/nigerian-wins-world-scrabble-championship (made earlier today, after we won).
But, I'm simply hoping that one of them actually makes it to the FP.

cao:
Now chessguru, I would normally close this thread, since we already have two threads (by neoapocalypse) about this in this section.
https://www.nairaland.com/2719681/world-scrabble-championship-ongoing-perth (made yesterday, while he was leading).
https://www.nairaland.com/2721441/nigerian-wins-world-scrabble-championship (made earlier today, after we won).
But, I'm simply hoping that one of them actually makes it to the FP.

Doesn't really matter whichever one gets to front page , what matters is the publicity , it's something we should be proud of as Nigerians and Africans. News like this should grace the front page more often rather than "what Tonto Dike ate for lunch"

neoapocalypse:



Doesn't really matter whichever one gets to front page , what matters is the publicity , it's something we should be proud of as Nigerians and Africans. News like this should grace the front page more often rather than "what Tonto Dike ate for lunch"

My point exactly.
EDIT: He finally made it to FP, https://www.nairaland.com/2721959/jighere-wellington-new-world-scrabble